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The following selection of curious and forgotten byways is for those with a compelling appetite for insignificata.

The Katzenjammer Kids   

The Katzenjammer Kids is the longest running comic strip in history, having celebrated its 100th birthday in 1997.  Once the most popular strip around, the Katzies spawned "The Captain and the Kids" and numerous imitations.

There's also a special page for Harold Knerr, who drew the little hellions for 35 years.

The KOOL Penguin    

Forget about "Joe Camel."  As a cartoon huckster for cigarettes, "Willie" the KOOL penguin preceded him by 50 years.  Learn all about Willie (and Millie) and view a vast assemblage of related memorabilia.

If you prefer, you may proceed directly to the KOOL penguin collectibles page.

Mistinguett      

Star of the Moulin Rouge, Casino de Paris, and Folies Bergere.  The "Queen of the Paris Music Hall" was fabulously popular during the years 1918-1942.  She of the "million dollar legs" deserves to be rediscovered.

Her humble fan presents an illustrated survey of her career and recordings for your edification.

Carl Barks              

Carl Barks drew the adventures of Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, and other "Duck family" members in the 40s, 50s, and 60s.  He was unknown at the time, since such comic books were represented as being by "Walt Disney."  But fans recognized his work and sought him out.  In retirement, Barks was involved with duck-related projects until his death at age 99.  A true American Original, his fans are legion.

Svend Asmussen      Updated April 16

The "best" jazz violinist living or dead (He's living, at age 92), yet chances are you never heard of him.  Why?  He seldom ventures from his home base in Denmark.

You don't think of the violin as a jazz instrument?  Well, think again.  Another truly exceptional performer who should be better known.

Tim Moore

One of, if not the, most talented African-American comedy performers and character actors in the history of the business, Tim Moore, is remembered primarily as the "Kingfish" on the popular "Amos 'n' Andy" television program.  He should be far better known and far more highly regarded than this most controversial of his performances has permitted.

Western Swing      

Swing bands like those of Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey were not the only ones heating up the 1930s.  These urban bands had their country counterparts--the so-called "Western Swing" bands.  Never widely known, these bands were exceptionally entertaining.  If you don't know about Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys or Milton Brown and the Musical Brownies, perhaps you should.

The Western Swing page also has links to special pages for the wonderful Adolph Hofner and the eccentric Bob Skyles and His Skyrockets.

Hazel Court            Updated April 16

This is the Internet meeting place for fans of the British actress, Hazel Court, best known as a companion to leading men in a number of  "Hammer" and "American International" productions.

Also, featured in the cult classic "Devil Girl From Mars," although not as the title villain, Miss Court brought a certain regal bearing to every role she played.

Miss Court passed away April 15, 2008, at the age of 82.

Rhythm & Blues Revues  

Once upon a time, not really so many years ago, something called "rock and roll" was just peeking out from under the covers.  In an age before electronic enhancement and special effects one could attend a performance, featuring a lineup of the biggest stars of the day, that was really something special.  Separate pages for Ruth Brown and Bo Diddley, among others, also await you.

European Jazz and Close Harmony Vocal Groups      

American fans of jazz and pop vocal groups of the '30s and '40s are familiar with the Mills Brothers, the Andrews Sisters, and the Ink Spots, all worthy of study and respect.  However, there is little recognition of their European counterparts.  This page, dedicated to the "Comedian Harmonists" and other wonderful groups, seeks to address this vacuum.

The "Pie Girl" Dinner      Retired April 2003

The famous Pie Girl Dinner was held in New York City on the night of May 20, 1895.

You probably missed it then and, I regret to say, you have also missed the account that once resided at this site.  The dining room is vacant and the guests have all departed.

Sally Rand

Best known as the fabulous fan dancer, Miss Rand roared into the public consciousness at the "Century of Progress" World's Fair in 1933.  Seeing a pretty girl's naked body in a public place was something quite new in those days.  Yet, like so many other pop culture icons, there was more to this young lady than met the eye.  Figuratively more, that is.

WLAC Radio       

Return with me now to those golden years of the mid-1950s when a young white boy was first finding out about Jimmie Reed, Howling Wolf, and Lightnin' Hopkins.

One of the ways he did so was to close the door to his room and, with a clandestine tuning of the radio dial to 1510, enter the wonderful late-night world of WLAC from Nashville, Tennessee.

The Blue Flames

The Who?  Well, they certainly weren't "The Who."  Indeed, this 1957 combo is one of the most obscure groups of all time.  This item sort of runs counter to my declared purpose of highlighting those who deserve greater recognition.

Still, I'm thinking there might be someone out there that knows who these guys were.  Are you that person?

Here ends the menu to the primary byways of the Popular Culture Excavation Site.  For capsule treatments of an additional group of subjects, each also worthy of broader exposure, you may proceed to the selected short subjects page.   As for this page, please keep scrolling, there are still a few odds and ends to come.

Most of the subjects featured herein also exist in the form of rare collectibles.  Where can one find an autographed picture of Sally Rand, a Katzenjammer Kids comic book, or a KOOL penguin salt shaker?  The answer is -- the eBay auctions!  Click the eBay icon and become a registered member today.  Yes, it's free, but please don't bid against "Otto."  Hey guys, that's me!

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If the various sections of this site are of interest, you may also enjoy my contributions to RETRO, the online "Magazine of Classic 20th Century Popular Culture."  RETRO spotlights "Anything that was ever cool."  Now in it's 7th year, this remarkable zine has been widely recognized as one of the most thoughtful and well designed sites on the Web.

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During the first five years of its existence, more than 100,000 gentle souls visited the Popular Culture Excavation Site.  On May 18, 2002, the 5th anniversary of its creation, hosting of the site was transferred from Yahoo/GeoCities to an independent server.  You are the most recent of the #!/usr/local/bin/perl5 use GD; alarm(600); # cgi-bin access counter program # Version 4.0.7 # # Copyright (C) 1995 George Burgyan # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at # your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # General Public License for more details. # # A full copy of the GNU General Public License can be retrieved from # http://www.webtools.org/counter/copying.html # # gburgyan@webtools.org # # George Burgyan # 1380 Dill Road # South Euclid, OH 44121 # # For more information look at http://www.webtools.org/counter/ ######################################################################## # # CHANGE THESE TO SUIT YOUR SITE # # The default language option (english, french, swedish) $default_lang = "english"; # The name of the file to use. You should probably give this an absolute path $FileName = "$ENV{'DOCUMENT_ROOT'}/counter/access_count"; # Replace with a list of regular expression IP addresses that we # are supposed to ignore. If you don't know what this means, just use # "\." instead of periods. Comment out entirely to ignore nothing. #@IgnoreIP = ("199\.18\.203\..*", # "199\.18\.159\.1", # ); # Aliases: Set this up so that diffent pages will all yield the same # count. For instance, if you have a link like "index.html -> home.html" # set it up like ("/index.html", "/home.html"). Make sure you give a full # path to it. This will treat "/index.html" as if it were "/home.html". %Aliases = ("/fakename.html", "/realname.html", "/index.html", "/home.html", ); # AUTOMATICALLY SET BY INSTALL!! Modify only if necessary!!! # # BaseName: set to whatever you have counter installed as. This is # used to derive the arguments. No not touch the next comment. ### AUTOMAGIC ### $BaseName = "counter"; # counter or counterbanner or counterfiglet # # Outputs the number of times a specific page has been accessed. # The output depends on which page 'called' it, and what the program # is named: # # The counter can "take arguments" via its name. That is, if you tack # -arg to the end of the program name, -arg is taken to be an argument. # For example, if you call the counter 'counter-ord', '-ord' is considered # an argument, and an ordinal count (1st, 2nd, 3rd, ...) will be printed # instead of (1, 2, 3, ...). Note that counterord does the same thing as # counter-ord for backward compatibility. # # Currently recognized arguments: # # -f=font sets "font" to be the font for figlet # -lang=lang sets the language used to ordinalize to "lang" # -nc no count; don't to write the incremented count back to the file # -nl no link; don't automatically generate a link # -nd no display; don't display anything, just count # -ord make an ordinal count instead of regular # -doc=document override the DOCUMENT_URI environment variable # # Example: counterfiglet-ord-f=bigfont-nc # # This will cause the counter to call figlet as the output routine, printing # in a big font an ordinal count, without updating the access count file. # Note that the order of arguments is irrelevant so long as you spell the # file name correctly. It is generally assumed that the ability to take # different arguments/use different output routines is done with symlinks: # i.e. ln -s counter counterfiglet-ord-f=bigfont-nc # # More complete documentation can be found at # http://www.webtools.org/counter/ # ######################################################################## # # Thing that shouldn't really need changing, but are configurable anyway. # # Maximum number of times to try to lock the file. # Each try is .1 second. Try for 1 second. $MaxTries = 10; # Set this to point to something, or comment it out, and it # won't be a link at all. # $Link = "http://www.webtools.org/counter/"; # Whether or not to use locking. If perl complains that flock is not # defined, change this to 0. Not *really* necessary because we check # to make sure it works properly. $UseLocking = 0; # What version of the counter file format are we using? $FileVersion = "02.000"; # Common names of the counter to install... @CommonExtensions = ("-ord", # Ordinam "figlet", # Figlet'ed "figlet-ord",# Ordinal figlet "banner", # Bannered "banner-ord",# Ordinal banner ); # ######################################################################### # # Misc documents to refer people to in case of errors. # $CreateFile = "[Error Creating Counter File -- Click for more info]"; $AccessRights = "[Error Opening Counter File -- Click for more info]"; $TimeoutLock = "[Timeout locking counter file]"; $BadVersion = "[Version access_count newer than this program. Please upgrade.]"; ######################################################################### # # The actual program! ### Stage 1 ### ### Parse the arguments... (just ignore this part) # Get arguments from program name. Argh...what a horrible way to do it! $prog = $0; $prog =~ s/(\.cgi|\.pl)//; #strip .cgi|.pl name extension $prog =~ s!^(.*/)!!; # separate program name $prog =~ s/\\(.)/sprintf("%%%02x", ord($1))/ge; # quote \c to %xx ($printer, @args) = split(/-/, $prog); # args are separated by dashes $printer =~ s/%(..)/pack("c", hex($1))/ge; # unquote printer function name $printer =~ s/$BaseName/counter/; # Make it cannonical. # This gets path info, which is only applicable if you are using our # ssis script (see above). This makes counter/ord the same as counter-ord push(@args, split("/", $ENV{"PATH_INFO"})) if $ENV{"PATH_INFO"}; # put them in assoc array %arg foreach (@args) # means do this for each element in the array { s/%(..)/pack("c", hex($1))/ge; # unquote %xx /^([^=]*)=?(.*)$/; # extract "=" part, if any $arg{$1} = $2 ? $2 : 1; } if ($ARGV[0] eq '-install') { &CheckPerl; &SetBaseName; &MakeCommon(0); exit(0); } if ($ARGV[0] eq '-installforce') { &CheckPerl; &SetBaseName; &MakeCommon(1); exit(0); } if ($ARGV[0] eq '-unlock') { open(FILE,"$FileName"); &UnlockFile(FILE); exit(0); } undef $Link if $arg{'nl'}; # make link? ### Stage 2 ### ### Print out the header # Print out the header print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; #print "Debug 1: $ConfName
Debug 2: $FileName"; ### Stage 3 ### ### Open the access_count file for read-write taking all the precautions # Make sure the file exists: if (!(-f $FileName)) { if (!open (COUNT,">$FileName")) { # Can't create the file print $CreateFile; exit 1; } else { # We got the file, print out the version number print COUNT "$FileVersion\n"; $version = 2; } } else { if (!((-r $FileName) && (-w $FileName))) { # Make sure that we can in fact read and write to the file in # question. If not, direct them to the FAQ. print $AccessRights; exit 1; } if (!open (COUNT,"+<$FileName")) { # Now make sure it *really* opens print $AccessRights; # ...just in case... exit 1; } # Try to read in a version number $version = ; if (!($version =~ /^\d+.\d+$/)) { # No version number, assume version 1 and reset the file. $version = 1; seek(COUNT,0,0); } } # This is for the future: the access_count file will have a version number. if ($version > 2) { print $BadVersion; exit 1; } ### Stage 4 ### ### Attempt to lock the file $lockerror = &LockFile(COUNT); # You would figure that $MaxTries would equal 0 if it didn't work. The # post-decrement takes it to -1 when the loop finally exits. if ($lockerror) { print $TimeoutLock; exit(0); } ### Stage 5 ### ### Check if we need to update the file to a newer version if ($version < 2) { &UpdateVersion1; } ### Stage 6 ### ### Convert the information the server gave us into the document ### identifier. # Make sure perl doesn't spit out warnings... if (defined $ENV{'DOCUMENT_URI'}) { $doc_uri = $ENV{'DOCUMENT_URI'}; } else { $doc_uri = ""; } # Campatibility: Version 2 files have the server name in front if and # only if it doesn't have a "~" in it. $old_uri = $doc_uri; # Add the server name in front to support multi-homed hosts if and only if # it doesn't have a "~" in it. (usernames are global in most multi-homed # settings if (defined $ENV{'SERVER_NAME'} && !($doc_uri =~ /~/)) { $doc_uri = $ENV{'SERVER_NAME'} . "/" . $doc_uri; } if (defined $arg{'doc'}) { $doc_uri = $arg{'doc'}; } $doc_uri = $Aliases{$doc_uri} if defined $Aliases{$doc_uri}; ### Stage 7 ### ### Find the relevant place in the file $location = tell COUNT; while ($line = ) { # Read the file line-by-line. if (($uri,$accesses) = ($line =~ /^'(\S*)' (\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d)$/)) { # An old line if ($uri eq $old_uri) { &ConvertDocV1($doc_uri,$old_uri,$accesses,$location); last; } } elsif (($uri,$accesses,$flags) = ($line =~ /^'(\S*)' (\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d) (\w\w\w\w)$/)) { # A new line if ($uri eq $doc_uri) { $flags = hex($flags); last; } } last if ($uri eq $doc_uri); $location = tell COUNT; #reset the fields $accesses = 0; $flags = 0; } ### Stage 8 ### ### Update the access count of the file $accesses += 1; # *NOT* '++' because we don't want '++'s magic ### Stage 9 ### ### Figure out what to print out # If we have to ordinalize, do it now. if (defined $arg{'ord'}) { if (defined $arg{'lang'}) { $ord = eval("&ordinalize_$arg{lang}($accesses)"); } else { $ord = &ordinalize($accesses); } } else { $ord = ""; } $to_print = $accesses . $ord; # Give it to the printer function to actually produce the output from the # ascii text that we have (to_print) ($count, $nLink) = eval("&output_$printer('$to_print')"); # If the above line gave us an error, default to just the text. if ($@) { ($count, $nLink) = &output_counter($to_print); } ### Stage 10 ### ### Now we actually tell the browser what the count is. if (! $arg{"nd"} ) { # If we print anything # Print out a link to something informative (if we were requested to) $script_name = $ENV{'SCRIPT_NAME'}; print "" if $nLink; if ($script_name =~ /cgi-bin\/count(\w+)/) { $img_dir = $1; } if ($img_dir ne "er") { &give_graphic } else { print $count; print "" if $nLink; } } sub give_graphic { @img_count = split(//,$count); foreach (@img_count) { print ""; }; } sub comment1 { # create a new image print "Content-type: image/gif\n\n"; $im = new GD::Image(100,100); # allocate some colors $white = $im->colorAllocate(255,255,255); $black = $im->colorAllocate(0,0,0); $red = $im->colorAllocate(255,0,0); $blue = $im->colorAllocate(0,0,255); # make the background transparent and interlaced $im->transparent($white); $im->interlaced('true'); # Put a black frame around the picture $im->rectangle(0,0,99,99,$black); # Draw a blue oval $im->arc(50,50,95,75,0,360,$blue); # And fill it with red $im->fill(50,50,$red); # Convert the image to GIF and print it on standard output print $im->gif; } ### Stage 11 ### ### Check if we are supposed to update the count in the file. (ie. we're ### not ignoring the host that just accessed us) # Make sure we are not ignoring the host: $ignore = 0; $ignore = grep($ENV{"REMOTE_ADDR"} =~ /$_/, @IgnoreIP) if defined ($ENV{"REMOTE_ADDR"}); $ignore = $ignore || $arg{"nc"}; ### Stage 12 ### ### Actually write the updated information back to the file if (!$ignore) # If we aren't ignoring this access { # Now update the counter file seek(COUNT, $location, 0); $longaccesses = sprintf("%010.10d", $accesses); $hexflags = sprintf("%04.4x", $flags); print COUNT "'$doc_uri' $longaccesses $hexflags\n"; } &UnlockFile(COUNT); close COUNT; ####################################################################### # # Support functions # # translate_output # # Quote any special characters with HTML quoting. sub translate_output { local($string) = @_; $_ = $string; s/è/è/g; return $_; } sub LockFile { local(*FILE) = @_; local($TrysLeft) = $MaxTries; if ($UseLocking) { # Try to get a lock on the file while ($TrysLeft--) { # Try to use locking, if it doesn't use locking, the eval would # die. Catch that, and don't use locking. # Try to grab the lock with a non-blocking (4) exclusive (2) lock. # (4 | 2 = 6) $lockresult = eval("flock(COUNT,6)"); if ($@) { $UseLocking = 0; last; } if (!$lockresult) { select(undef,undef,undef,0.1); # Wait for 1/10 sec. } else { last; # We have gotten the lock. } } } if ($TrysLeft >= 0) { # Success! return 0; } else { return -1; } } sub UnlockFile { local(*FILE) = @_; if ($UseLocking) { flock(FILE,8); # Unlock the file. } } #################################################################### # # Installation helpers # # SetBaseName # # Change the counter program itself to set the basename sub SetBaseName { local($name) = $0; $name =~ s/^.*\/([^\/]+)$/$1/; # Strip off any of the path if ($name eq $BaseName) { # The way we're set up now!!! return; # Don't need to change a thing. } if (!open(COUNTERFILE, "+<$0")) { print "Can't modify program. Set \$BaseName manually.\n"; return; } print "Configuring \$BaseName variable...\n"; local($oldsep) = $/; undef($/); local($program) = ; # The next line does all the magic. $program =~ s/\#\#\# AUTOMAGIC \#\#\#\n\$BaseName = \"[^\"]+\";\n/\#\#\# AUTOMAGIC \#\#\#\n\$BaseName = \"$name\";\n/; seek(COUNTERFILE,0,0) || return; truncate(COUNTERFILE,0); print COUNTERFILE $program; close COUNTERFILE; } # CheckPerl # # Make sure that the "#! /[path]/perl" points to something real... sub CheckPerl { if (!open(COUNTERFILE, "<$0")) { print "Can't check to make sure Perl is in the right place.\n"; return; } print "Checking to make sure Perl is found properly...\n"; $firstline = ; ($command) = ($firstline =~ /^\#! *([^\s]+) *$/); close(COUNTERFILE); if (! -x $command) { print "The location of Perl is misconfigured. Please edit the\n"; print "first line of this program to point to the locally installed\n"; print "copy of perl.\n\n"; print "Currently, it is configured to be \"$command\", however,\n"; print "that file either does not exist or is not a program.\n\n"; print "Some common locations for Perl are:\n"; print " /usr/bin/perl\n"; print " /usr/local/bin/perl\n"; print " /bin/perl\n"; print " /opt/gnu/bin/perl\n\n"; exit; } } # MakeCommon # # Make some common links to the counter sub MakeCommon { local($force) = @_; local($ext); print "Installing the counter...\n"; print " ...making counter executable\n"; chmod(0755,$0); local($path, $name, $cgi); $name = $0; if ($name =~ /^(.*\/)([^\/]+)$/) { $path = $1; $name = $2; } if ($name =~ /^(.*)(\.cgi)$/) { $name = $1, $cgi = $2; } foreach $ext (@CommonExtensions) { print " ...making link from $path$name$cgi to $path$name$ext$cgi\n"; if (!&MakeLink("$path$name$cgi","$path$name$ext$cgi",$force)) { # An error occured while making the link. :-( print " *** An error occured while making the link.\n"; } } if ($symlink_exists == 0 && $link_exists == 0) { print "* NOTE * Your system does not support symbolic or hard links,\n"; print " copies made instead. If you modify the counter, you must\n"; print " run counter -install again to recopy it to the other files.\n"; } print "...done!\n"; } # MakeLink # # Actually create the link. sub MakeLink { local($oldname,$newname,$force) = @_; # Check to see if we can make symbolic links instead of hard links if (!defined $symlink_exists) { $symlink_exists = (eval 'symlink("","");', $@ eq ''); } # Check to see if we can make a link if we can't make a symlink if (!symlink_exists) { $link_exists = (eval 'link("","");', $2 eq ''); } if ($force) { # Check to see if the file exists if (-e $newname) { if (!unlink ($newname)) { return 0; } } } if ($symlink_exists) { return symlink($oldname, $newname); } elsif ($link_exists) { return link($oldname, $newname); } else { # Copy it the old-fashioned way... *sigh* open(OLDFILE, $oldname) || die "Can't open $oldname for copy"; open(NEWFILE, ">$newname") || die "Can't open $newname for write"; while() { print NEWFILE $_; } close(NEWFILE); close(OLDFILE); } } #################################################################### # # Ordinalizing functions # # ordinalize # # Call the appropriate ordinalize function for the default language sub ordinalize { local($count) = @_; if (defined $arg{'lang'}) { return eval("&ordinalize_$arg{lang}($count)"); } else { return eval("&ordinalize_$default_lang($count)"); } } # ordinalize_english # # Figure out what suffix (st, nd, rd, th) a number would have in ordinal # form and return that extension. sub ordinalize_english { local($count) = @_; local($last, $last2); $last2 = $count % 100; $last = $count % 10; if ($last2 < 10 || $last2 > 13) { return "st" if $last == 1; return "nd" if $last == 2; return "rd" if $last == 3; } return "th"; # Catch "eleventh, twelveth, thirteenth" etc. } # ordinalize_french # # Trivial... Return the extension for french. The only exception is 1. # Thank you Chris Polewczuk sub ordinalize_french { local ($count) = @_; if ($count == 1) { return "'ière"; } else { return "ième"; } } # ordinalize_swedish # # A function to ordinalize in Swedish. Thanks go to Johan Linde # for the code! sub ordinalize_swedish { local($count) = @_; local($last, $last2); $last2 = $count % 100; $last = $count % 10; if ($last2 < 10 || $last2 > 12) { return ":a" if ($last == 1 || $last == 2); } return ":e"; } ######################################################################## # # Output functions # # The following are the routines that actually convert the number # of accesses into something that we print out. # # The name of each function is "output_" followed by the program's name. # For instance, is the program is called "counter" then "output_counter" # will be called; a program called "counterbanner" will call # "output_counterbanner" to get the output. # # If the function is not defined, then "output_counter" will be called. # # output_counter # # The simplest function: just returns the number of accesses and the link. sub output_counter { local($count) = @_; return &translate_output($count), $Link; # we return the count and the link } # output_counterord # # Return the number of accesses as an ordinal number. (ie. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th) sub output_counterord { local($count) = @_; return &translate_output($count . &ordinalize($count)), $Link; } # output_counterbanner # # A somewhat silly one that uses the "banner" command to print out the # count. :) You might need to change the path to make it work. sub output_counterbanner { local($count) = @_; $banner = `banner $count`; return "

$banner

" . $fig . "